How to Work on a Page

  • Click on the Edit This Page button at the top of the page
  • Add text, pictures, videos, files, links to webpages and media.
  • Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.
  • Click Save

How To Add Text:

  • Click and type where you want the text to appear.
  • Use the formatting buttons on the toolbar.
  • Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving

How to Add Pictures, Videos and Files

  • Click the image icon which looks like a landscape picture image_tool_icon.JPG in the toolbar to add a new link.
  • Click on External Link and type or paste the web URL

How to Create and Link to a New Page or Link to an Existing Page

  • Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
  • Click on the Add Link icon link_tool_icon.JPGin the toolbar to add a new link.
  • To link to an existing page, pull down and select the page name you would like to link to.
  • To create a new page, either keep the name of the word you highlighted or write a new page name.


How to Embed Media (such as YouTube videos)

  • When editing any Wikispaces page, you'll see a button on the toolbar that looks like a television widget_tool_icon.JPG.
  • Click it, and paste the HTML from any embeddable web service in the box.

How to Undo

  • You can't actually Undo something you just did like in a word processor, but you can revert back to the page before you saved it.
  • Click on 'history' on top of the page you want to revert
  • Select the version you would like to go back to, by clicking on the revision in the date column
  • Click 'revert to this version' at the top of the page

How to Create a Personal Icon

  • Find and icon that you want to use. Here are some safe links:
http://clip-art.kaboose.com/icons/icons-index.html
http://www.schoolicons.com/eng/web/icons/icon_e.html
http://www.iconarchive.com/category/kid-icons.html

  • Next, save the icon to your computer. Windows: Point your cursorto the icon and right click. A menu will appear. Click on Save Picture As. Save the picture to the desktop or a folder. Mac: Hold down the Control button and click. A menu will appear. Click on Save Picture As. Save the picture to the desktop or a folder.
  • Log into the wiki. Click on My Account in the upper right corner of the screen. Click on Change Picture in the upper left corner. Upload the saved piacture by clicking on Browse, finding the picture on thecomputer, then clicking Upload. After that, you will be prompted tocomplete the uploading process.